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Lee at Appomattox by Elizabeth R. Varon (Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture )
Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind—it was, many believe, a...
Lee's Last War Winter
On April 22 at 5:30 p.m., William C. Davis delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Lee's Last War Winter."
Robert E. Lee faced the coming of 1865’s...
Lee's Last War Winter by William C. Davis
On April 22 at 5:30 p.m., William C. Davis delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Lee’s Last War Winter.”
Robert E. Lee faced the coming of 1865...
Lincoln and McClellan
On May 12, 2011, John C. Waugh delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Lincoln and McClellan."
There was no more remarkable yoking of personalities in...
Lincoln and McClellan By John C. Waugh
On May 12, 2011, John C. Waugh delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Lincoln and McClellan.”
There was no more remarkable yoking of personalities in...
Lincoln: President-Elect By Harold Holzer
In the winter of 1860–61, the crisis that erupted with the election of Abraham Lincoln threatened to split the nation. In his newest Lincoln book, Lin...
Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
On January 23, 2020, Douglas Waller delivered the Banner Lecture, "Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation." Lincoln’s Spies is a story...
Magna Carta: 800 Years since Runnymede A. E. Dick Howard
On September 9, 2014, at noon, A. E. Dick Howard delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Magna Carta: 800 Years since Runnymede."
In 2015 people on both...
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
On November 16, 2011, Tony Horwitz delivered the Alexander W. Weddell Trustees lecture entitled "Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked...
My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
National Reconstruction: Land Redistribution in the South and West after the Civil War
On May 19 at noon, Adam W. Dean delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "National Reconstruction: Land Redistribution in the South and West after the...
Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South
On May 9, 2019, Gregory D. Smithers delivered the Banner Lecture, “Native Southerners: The Indigenous People Who Made and Remade the South.”
Long...
Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
On November 30, 2023, historian Jessica Taylor discussed the subject of her new book, Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: Navigating Native Land and Water...
Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
On August 24, 2017, Jon Kukla delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty.”
Patrick Henry is remembered today mostly for...
Perspectives on American Democracy
As part of The Richmond Times-Dispatch's live election night coverage of the 2022 mid-terms, Matt Pochily explored the American Democracy: A Great...
Planter Oligarchy on Virginia’s Northern Neck
Reclamation: How a Monticello Descendant Uncovered and Restored Her Family’s Heritage
Join Gayle Jessup White, author of Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy, as she...
Reconstruction
Recovering History, Reclaiming the Present: The Apalachee Diaspora since the 16th Century
On April 7, 2022, Kimberly C. Borchard presented a lecture about the 500-year-old myth of Appalachian gold and its catastrophic consequences for the...
Religion and Race in the Story of Public Executions in the South
On June 6, 2023, Virginia-born historian Michael Trotti as he shared stories from his research on the movement from public legal executions in the...